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The attack refers to the strategy and tactics used to resolve problems. It is a plan of action employed to direct the investigation of issues raised in the problem domain. Plans are developed within the bounds of the approach and use its vocabulary. Therefore, the plan proposed will seek to meet the information demands of the software maintainer.

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Smith, D.D. (1999). The Attack. In: Designing Maintainable Software. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1500-4_3

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